...not modern. Customized.
Mercs would need it 'cause they would be flying the same ship for each and every mission, or would taylor the ship their group gives them to their own taste - hiring mercs is expensive, running a fleet of your own is even more. So mercs better be good - ergo these people won't put up with basic bones of a fighter, they need some customized meet on it.
Nothing exceptional, but not quite the mass produced standard.
As for scout - did you ever realize how hard it would be to truly detect something in space?
A true scout squad will have to do pretty much the work nowadays assigned to AWACs - althought there are dedicated ships for that purpose, you can't move all these task to these fragile and slow (compared to fighters) ships.
They will also have a dedicatged navigator/electronic officer onboard, who handles all the stuff on the backseat.